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Scouting mission day one

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After spending last night in a lovely AirBnB near Stanstead airport and getting very little sleep, we got up at silly O'clock to head to the airport.  We headed to the lounge for a leisurely (4 course for John) breakfast before dashing for our gate because John, an experienced traveler, can't seem to grasp that I can't walk as fast as he can and not being at the gate as early as possible makes me exceedingly anxious particularly when he is pushing in front of a woman with a double buggy to get there! The flight itself was uneventful and we were unloaded quite quickly. John then immediately had to jump onto a couple of business calls so we found somewhere to sit for an hour or so. We picked up our super cheap hire car which, to John's disgust, was a Fiat Panda. He folded inside, grumbled about manual handbrake and that he was having to use gears and off we went. First stop was Wiehl to look at a rather old house but we were rather early so, after finding the house, we
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Bugger Brexit

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The Brexit referendum was a bit of a blow to our family. Firstly, both my husband and I believe the EU is genuinely the best option for the UK. Secondly, my husband is half German (but legally German with no British citizenship etc) with a German passport so the result felt like a personal snub particular as his own English mother voted for the leave option, justifying it with an insistence that it is the "other type" of immigrants that she wants gone (all the while maintaining that she isn't racist). As you can imagine, things have been tense at his family gatherings... John has mentioned that maybe we might think about moving but I've largely ignored him until it was the government in their wisdom that decided to go back on their promise that things would be unchanged for existing EU residents in the UK and instead insisted they would have to pay and apply for settled status we started to rethink. As it becomes more and more likely that we will crash out without a
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